Version ranges use sometimes wrong brackets

[pdolezal]

Issue type

Wrong or misleading information

Problem description

It seems that version ranges in the documentation are not correctly formatted (or what had happened). For instance, see the page about them: from that point down the version ranges have often a wrong right bracket – [ instead of ) or ]. I think I saw that on other pages too.

As a Gradle newbie, I was somewhat confused first and I thought it was some Gradle idiosyncrasy 😅

Context (optional)

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Page with the problem

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_versions.html#sec:rich-version-constraints

[lkasso]

Hey @pdolezal, please note that:

• [ and ] indicate an inclusive bound -> [1.1, 2.0]
• ( and ) indicate an exclusive bound -> (1.1, 2.0) or (1.2, 1.5] or [1.1, 2.0)
• ] can be used instead of ( for an exclusive lower bound -> ]1.2, 1.5] instead of (1.2, 1.5]
• [ can be used instead of ) for exclusive upper bound -> [1.1, 2.0[ instead of [1.1, 2.0)

Would you like me to add this to that doc page? Is there anything else that doesn't make sense?

[pdolezal]

@lkasso Hi, thanks for the reply. Well, the possibility that it stands for an exclusive bound came to my mind, because it was repeated multiple times, but I could not find any explicit explanation. If it is missing indeed, I'd vote for adding it ✌ Specifically, I would expect it in the section Understanding version declarations.

[lkasso]

I will go ahead and add it this week. I will make sure it gets released in Gradle 8.12